…health insurance exchanges, on May 11, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health convened a hearing on “Health Care Solutions: Increasing Patient Choice and Plan Innovation.”…

…payment: MIPS and APMs. CMS Acting Administrator, Andy Slavitt, testified before the Senate Finance Committee and responded to members’ concerns about the accelerated timeline for implementation of the Quality…

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Medicare Spending Slowed Significantly in Recent Years In early September 2023, newspaper articles, including one in the The New York Times on September 4, 2023, noted that Medicare spending…

…a fellow or newly practicing surgeon (within past three years), you’re invited to a complimentary dinner as part of ISASS’ Young Surgeons Dinner series. When: Nov. 6, from 6:30…

…The Spine Newsfeed, a review of ISASS and spine industry news gathered weekdays from popular and spine industry media outlets and a weekly Spine Newsfeed email recap. 12th Annual…

…provided by the BCBSNC website for this erroneous statement cites a 2008 article from the New York Times (hardly a primary source of credible medical literature). Perhaps it would…

…draft measure specifications, Field Test Report format, and supplemental documentation through this online survey through October 31. All survey questions requesting feedback will be optional You may attach a…

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…spine surgeons,” added Michael Gordon, MD, HOI Orthopedics, Newport Beach, CA. Winners of the best papers from ISASS13 include: ISASS Leon Wiltse Award for Best Overall Paper – Sponsored…

…swabs transported in viral media and dry nasal swabs, in a New York City academic institution .https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.11.089896 Coronavirus (COVID-19) update: FDA authorizes first diagnostic test using at-home collection of…

…providing useful feedback in a timely fashion (average time from submission to first decision is only 54 days, compared to three months or more in many other spine publications)….